Sample the Chicago's ongoing year-round celebration of international music when Music Without Borders returns to the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park for its fifth summer. Presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Millennium Park, the series expands this year to include eight double-bill concerts, beginning Thursday, June 3 and closing July 22, 2010, featuring traditional folk and pop artists from around the globe.
The free concert series features music spanning four continents—Europe, Africa, South America and Asia—with nine groups making their Chicago debut at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.
June 3: Balkan Beat Box, The Very Best
June 10: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba; Howlin' Wolf tribute with Hubert Sumlin, Otis Taylor, and Eddie Shaw
June 17: Tinariwen, Monajat Yulchieva
June 24: Doc Severinsen & El Ritmo de la Vida, Sones de Mexico
July 1: Orchestre Septentrional d'Haiti, Batata y Las Alegres Ambulancias
July 8: Dobet Gnahore, Victor Deme
July 15: Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, La 33
July 22: Renato Borghetti, Boris Malkovsky & the AGAM String Quartet
Location
Millennium Park
55 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, ILUnited States
